For the 100 largest public-employee pension systems in the country, assets (cash and investments) totaled $3,252.2 billion in the first quarter of 2016, increasing by 0.1 percent from the 2015 fourth-quarter level of $3,249.4 billion. Compared to the same quarter 2015, assets for these major public pension systems decreased 4.0 percent from $3,388.5 billion. The asset categories highlighted in this summary are the major asset categories (equities, debt instruments, and cash equivalents) and do not reflect all the categories published for the Quarterly Survey of Public Pensions. Please see the complete data sets on the Web site at <www.census.gov/programs-surveys/qspp.html> for further detail.